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POLYGAMIA, SUPERFLUA. 
margarita- 
ceum. 
plantagi- 
neum. 
dioicum. 
Pennsylvani- 
cum. 
inerous. Recej^taclend^k^di. pilous^ 
or scabrous. — JYutt. 
1. G. herbaceous; leaves linear-lanceolate^ gra- 
dually narrowed, acute; stem branched above; 
corymb fastigiate; flowers pedicellate. — Wilkie 
and Pursli. 
Icon. Eng. Bot. 2018. 
Life-everlasting. Bead-man^ s Flower. Coffin-plant. 
A fine aromatic plant, with a most agreeable odour. From 
one foot to eighteen inches high. Whole plant whitish. Flow- 
ers white, with a yellow disk, larger than in any of the suc- 
ceeding species. In old fields, on road-sides and commons; 
every where abundant. The flowers are smoaked through 
pipes in l^ancaster county, to cure the tooth-ach. Perennial. 
August, October. 
2. G. sarments procumbent ; stem very simple ; ra- 
dical leaves ovate, nerved, mucronate ; corymb 
contracted; flowers dioicous; interior calicine 
scales elongated, somewhat acute, coloured.— 
mild. 
G. plantaginifolium, L. 
Icon. Pluk. aim. t. 348. f. 9. 
Plajitane-leaved Cudweed. 
About six inches or a foot high. Eadical leaves broad, re- 
sembling somewhat those of common plantane. Flowers white. 
Whole plant more or less covered with white down. In woods 
and on hills, every where common. Perennial. May, July. 
3. G. sarments procumbent; stem very simple; 
radical leaves spathulate; corymb coarctate; 
flowers dioicous ; interior calicine scales elon- 
gated, obtuse, coloured. — Willd. 
About five or seven inches high ; very greyish. Flowers 
white. In commons, every where common. Perennial. July. 
4. G. herbaceous ; leaves obovate-lanceolate, acute, 
glabrous above, tomentose beneath, margin pu- 
bescent ; flowers subsessile, axillary and termi- 
nal, crowded. B. 
